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Librarian. Parliamentary data person. Taxonomist, but only just. Tinkering in Python.
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Parliamentary Pudding Club ventured outside the Estate walls for today's pud. Whilst tasty, it lacked three important details: 1. Custard 2. A table around which we could all convene 3. The venerable @fantasticlife.bsky.social

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Employee satisfaction scores for office workers should be taken with a pinch of salt - over 30% of their job satisfaction on any given day will be directly tied to the number of times they had to authenticate into Microsoft products.

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Did you know as a grown adult you can just buy yourself a bag of chocolate coins? You don't have to wait to find them in your stocking on Christmas morning?

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Sounds about right.

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@kentonline.co.uk, saying the quiet part out loud on their ad for a premium subscription

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Request for @bsky.app to introduce collapsing reply threads, a la Reddit. Scrolling for days at the moment, trying to read replies to popular posts.

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Hello new followers! Chances are if you're following me you're also interested in data on MPs. I've recently been looking at the data available on MPs in Wikidata, the free, open knowledge base that supports the Wikimedia sites. Starting a thread on Wikidata queries for MP data:

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

Gravesend has introduced butt bins, complete with promotional duck mascot. The signs pointing to the bins are meant to be duck feet, but they've ended up looking like arrows pointing directly away from the bins.

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We should all collectively make more use of the words nibling (niece or nephew) and pibling (uncle or aunt). "who is your favourite uncle or aunt?" Too many words. "who is your favourite pibling?" Much more efficient.

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Not even 7 o'clock and I've had to explain that the man on the (children's!) radio show is talking about something that happened a long, long time ago at daddy's work, and I'm not in any danger.

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<250k club 😎

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"if you want to feel confident at work, dress like you belong there" Right, got it:

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2... reminded of this today.

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Great reporting, I like how they scrutinised the data collection practices of the McDonald's survey and looked in the whole at the percentage of pay each generation is spending on different goods and services*. *Reader, they did not do any of that.

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First jerk chicken of the new Parliament (for me, anyway). Will keep you posted on whether it still lives up to the hype.

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment

"AI is going to take over the world!" AI, today:

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In lieu of any current completed data projects/coding tidbits, this account may become a showcase of kid 1's incredible drawings. Here is Amma (mum) making pancakes in the kitchen

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...I didn't do it.

submitted 201 days ago • 1 comment

Indoctrinating my kids, one book at a time

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A Christmas themed connecting wall in which all the clues are Members of the Commons or Lords, if you are so inclined connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-Nlwnpc...

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Good Lord.

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Anyone else's workplace sell merch commemorating the time it was nearly destroyed?

submitted 502 days ago • 1 comment

Hello BlueSky, I'm Phil. By day, I work with Parliamentary data - member information, Parliamentary material, the Parliament thesaurus. Away from work, I like to teach myself bits of useful, practical code. Happy to answer Qs or discuss any of this.

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